1st Edition

South African Foreign Policy Identities, Intentions, and Directions

Edited By David R Black, David Hornsby Copyright 2017
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

This book considers the identity, direction, and intentions embodied in post-apartheid South African Foreign Policy.  It aims to deepen the understanding of this evolving post-apartheid foreign policy through an exploration of the nature and trajectory of key bilateral relationships from both the global ‘South’ (Brazil, China, Iran, the AU) and ‘North’ (Japan and the UK). This window on the... Read more

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David R. Black and David J. Hornsby

2. Norm dynamics and international organisations: South Africa in the African Union and International Criminal Court
J. Andrew Grant and Spencer Hamilton

3. South Africa and Japan: maintaining a difficult friendship
Scarlett Cornelissen

4. South African foreign policy and China: converging visions, competing interests, contested identities
Chris Alden and Yu-Shan Wu

5. Brazil and South Africa: the ‘odd couple’ of the South Atlantic?
Janis van der Westhuizen

6. A battle of principles: South Africa’s relations with Iran
Michal Onderco

7. Breaking with tradition? South Africa–UK relations
David J. Hornsby and David R. Black

Biography

David J Hornsby is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Assistant Dean of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

David R Black is the Lester B Pearson Professor of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Canada.

"With South Africa’s domestic political landscape overshadowing its global affairs at present, the analysis put forward in this volume provides a renewed impetus to the study of South Africa’s foreign policy after 1994."

Sanusha Naidu, Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, South African Journal of International Affairs

"The contribution of this book is significant for its focus on bilateral relations, moving beyond much of the literature that has so far focused on South Africa's broader foreign policy development and implementation, particularly in the multilateral system of governance. Given the number of bi-national commisions (BNCs) and strategic partnerships that South Africa has agreed, this is indeed an area that is in the need of further interrogration in terms of its strategic value."

Lesley Master, Strategic Review for Southern Africa, Vol 39, No 2, University of Johannesburg